Besson M, Desmeules J, Wolff H, Gaspoz J M
Service de medecine de premier recours, HUG, 121 1 Genève.
Rev Med Suisse. 2007 Oct 3;3(127):2239-43.
Self-medication is well known risk in Latin America. This situation can partly be explain by the difficult access to doctors and poorly regulated drug sales. Illegal Latino-American immigrants import their practice of self-medication and their drugs with them. The economic advantage of this practice makes it popular and confronts medical practitioners to question the benefice/risk of such behavior. Taking the particular situation of illegal Latino-American immigrants, this review discusses the necessity of abording systematically the question of self-medication during a medical consultation.
自我药疗在拉丁美洲是众所周知的风险。这种情况部分可以通过看医生困难和药品销售监管不力来解释。非法的拉丁裔美国移民将他们的自我药疗做法和药品一并带入。这种做法的经济优势使其流行起来，并使医疗从业者质疑这种行为的益处/风险。考虑到非法拉丁裔美国移民的特殊情况，本综述讨论了在医疗咨询中系统地探讨自我药疗问题的必要性。
